Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Sheela-na-gig
Mullanacross (trough By.), County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mullanacross (trough By.)
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.38665, -6.98377
- SMR number
- MO003-018006-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
There is a record of what might be a sheela-na-gig from Errigal Trough graveyard (MO003-01803-) that was moved to the Ulster Museum (ITA Survey 1943), but this cannot be confirmed (Freitag 2004).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revision: 7 November 2016
References
Irish Tourist Association. Surveys undertaken in the 1940s for the Irish Tourist Association (now Fáilte Ireland) relating to ‘Natural features, antiquities, historic associations etc.' Extracts from these surveys were copied into the Topographical files of the Office of Public Works and these have been incorporated into the Sites and Monuments Record files (National Monuments Service).
Freitag, B. 2004 Sheela-na-gigs: unravelling an enigma. London. Routledge.
Nearby in the register
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.